Re: A Very Brief Sample of Thoughts From a Marathon Coding Session in Front of the TV
Pop Tarts
I really like the new Pop Tarts Snak-Stix commercials.
The setup is a young, sort of wan kid coming home from school and walking into the kitchen to get himself a snack. He opens the cupboard and pulls out the aforementioned snack food. His mom calls from another room: “How was your day, honey?”
Cut to a flashback of an absurdly horrible experience at school that day. In one version of the commercial, he’s innocently walking down the school corridor when he encounters a man in full plate armor walking the other way. They stand and appraise each other for a moment. The guy in plate armor then kicks the kid in the shin and keeps on walking. In another version, he opens his locker and is knocked to the floor; it’s filled with dead fish and water.
Cut back to the kitchen scene; he contemplates his mother’s question, takes a bite of the Snak-Stick, and answers: “Fine. It was fine.”
Every day of my freshman year of high school went a little something like that.
Geekdom
Programming in C# is a lot like riding a moped:
It’s a lot of fun, until your friends see you.
Six Pack Abs
I don’t know if anyone else gets the “Six Pack Abs with John Basedow” ads, but it plays about every six minutes here.
Mr. Basedow claims that with his system, you can get that tight six-pack that has always eluded you before.
For one thing, John Basedow is totally ripped, but he’s got the face and head of a software engineer. That always looks kind of funny, and screams “I was beat up a lot in high school!”. However, that’s neither here nor there.
Defined abs are really nice to look at. However, cuddling up to them is another story. It’s a little like trying to cuddle up to a package of lamb chops.
So stop! Go ahead, work on your abs, it looks great. But leave just that tiniest bit of fat over the top. Your significant other will appreciate it.
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